Episteme a Journal of Individual and Social
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
episteme ISSN 1742-3600 episteme VOLUME 12 | ISSUE 4 | 2015 VOLUME 12 | ISSUE 4 | 2015 episteme Best Explanationism and Justifi cation for Beliefs about the Future VOLUME 12 Gregory Stoutenburg a journal of individual and social epistemology Epistemic Solidarity as a Political Strategy Robert E. Goodin and Kai Spiekermann Epistemology and Radically Extended Cognition | Benjamin Jarvis ISSUE 4 The Heterogeneity Problem for Sensitivity Accounts Guido Melchior Cognitive Diversity, Binary Decisions, and Epistemic Democracy | John A. Weymark 2015 EDITOR JENNIFER LACKEY Cambridge Journals Online For further information about this journal please go to the journal web site at http://journals.cambridge.org/epi Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.33.19, on 23 Sep 2021 at 11:08:03, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2015.51 117423600_12-4.indd7423600_12-4.indd 1 223/10/153/10/15 55:06:06 PPMM episteme: a journal of individual and social epistemology EDITOR JENNIFER LACKEY Episteme is a general journal of epistemology in the analytic tradition that invites both informal and formal submission of manuscripts approaches. Among its primary “traditional” topics are knowledge, justifi cation, evidence, reasons, rationality, All submissions to Episteme must be made through the ScholarOne Manuscripts site: skepticism, truth, probability, epistemic norms and values, and methodology. The journal devotes special http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/epi attention to issues in social epistemology, including testimony, trust, disagreement, relativism, diversity and expertise, collective judgment, and the epistemic assessment of social institutions (e.g., science, law, democracy, Papers should be double-spaced: font in 12 point Times New Roman. Articles not longer than 12,000 and the media). The journal welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to epistemology that borrow methods from words are desirable. Longer pieces may be allowed at the editor’s discretion. All self-identifying marks allied disciplines such as experimental psychology, linguistics, economics, game theory, evolutionary theory, and should be removed from the article itself to facilitate blind reviews. Submitting an article to Episteme computer simulation studies. We do not publish purely historical work or case studies. implies that it has not been published elsewhere and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Authors must obtain written permission to publish any material of which they do not own the For more information please visit the journal’s website: http://journals.cambridge.org/epi copyright. Authors of articles published in the journal assign copyright to Cambridge University Press (with certain rights reserved) and you will receive a copyright assignment form for signature on acceptance of your paper. Anil Gupta (University of Pittsburgh) episteme editorial board Instructions for contributors can be found at: http://assets.cambridge.org/EPI/EPI_ifc.pdf David Christensen (Brown University) Alan Hajek (Australian National University) Igor Douven (University of Groningen) Gilbert Harman (Princeton University) Kenny Easwaran (University of Southern California) John Hawthorne (University of Oxford) subscriptions Don Fallis (University of Arizona) Paul Horwich (New York University) Episteme (ISSN 1742-3600) is published four times a year in March, June, September and December. Jennifer Lackey, Editor in Chief (Northwestern University) The subscription price (excluding VAT) of volume 12 (2015), which includes print and online access, is Christian List (London School of Economics and Frank Jackson (Princeton University/Australian £243 net (US$417 in the USA, Canada and Mexico) for institutions, and £65 net (US$113) for individuals. Political Science) National University) EU subscribers (outside the UK) who are not registered for VAT should add VAT at their country’s rate. Jack Lyons (University of Arkansas) James Joyce (University of Michigan) VAT-registered customers should provide their VAT registration number. Japanese prices for institutions Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri) Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) Nicholas Silins (Cornell University and Yale - NUS (including ASP delivery) are available from Kinokuniya Company Ltd., P.O. Box 55, Chitose, Tokyo 156, Peter Klein (Rutgers University) College) Japan. All prices include delivery by air where appropriate. Hilary Kornblith (University of Massachusetts, Declan Smithies (Ohio State University) Amherst) Orders, which must be accompanied by payment, may be sent to a bookseller, subscription agent or Editorial Assistant Jonathon Kvanvig (Baylor University) direct to the publisher: Cambridge University Press, Journals Fulfi llment Department, UPH, Shaftesbury Nicholas Leonard (Northwestern University) Helen Longino (Stanford University) Road, Cambridge CB2 8BS, UK; or in the USA, Canada and Mexico: Cambridge University Press, Journals John McDowell (University of Pittsburgh) Fulfi llment Department, 100 Brook Hill Drive, West Nyack, New York 10994-2133, USA. Founding Editors Richard Moran (Harvard University) Leslie Marsh (University of British Columbia, Canada) Adam Morton (University of Alberta) Chris Onof (Imperial and Birkbeck Colleges, London) Erik Olsson (Lund University) copying This journal is registered with the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA Senior Advisory Editor Christopher Peacocke (Columbia University) 01923, USA. Organisations in the USA who are registered with the C.C.C. may therefore copy material Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University) Alvin Plantinga (University of Notre Dame) (beyond the limits permitted by sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright law) subject to payment to the Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh) C.C.C. of the per copy fee of $30. This consent does not extend to multiple copying for promotional or episteme advisory board Gerhard Schurz (University of Dusseldorf) Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame) commercial purposes. Code 1742-3600/2015. ISI Tear Sheet Service, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, Brian Skyrms (University of California, Irvine) Paul Boghossian (New York University) PA 19104, USA, is authorised to supply single copies of separate articles for private use only. Organisations Laurence BonJour (University of Washington) Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University) authorised by the Copyright Licensing Agency may also copy material subject to the usual conditions. Tyler Burge (University of California, Los Angeles) Wolfgang Spohn (University of Konstanz) For all other use, permission should be sought from Cambridge or from the North American Branch of Albert Casullo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Jason Stanley (Rutgers University) Cambridge University Press. C. A. J. Coady (Centre For Applied Philosophy and Stephen Stich (Rutgers University) Public Ethics, Australia) Michael Strevens (New York University) The journal is included in the Cambridge Journals Online service which can be found at Stewart Cohen (University of Arizona) Barry Stroud (University of California, Berkeley) http://journals.cambridge.org. Earl Conee (University of Rochester) Keith DeRose (Yale University) Paul Thagard (University of Waterloo) TM Fred Dretske (Duke University) Peter Unger (New York University) This journal has been printed on FSC -certifi ed paper and cover board. FSC is an independent, Catherine Elgin (Harvard University) James Van Cleve (University of Southern non-governmental, non-for-profi t organisation established to promote the responsible management Pascal Engel (University of Geneva) California) of the world’s forests. Please see www.fsc.org for information. Richard Feldman (University of Rochester) Jonathan Vogel (Amherst College) Richard Foley (New York University) © Cambridge University Press, 2015 Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University) Elizabeth Fricker (University of Oxford) Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford) Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck College) Printed in the United Kingdom by Henry Ling Limited, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester, DT1 1HD Richard Fumerton (University of Iowa) Crispin Wright (New York University) Thomas Grundmann (University of Cologne) Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma) Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.33.19, on 23 Sep 2021 at 11:08:03, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2015.51 117423600_12-4.indd7423600_12-4.indd 3 223/10/153/10/15 55:06:06 PPMM episteme: a journal of individual and social epistemology VOLUME 12 | ISSUE 4 | 2015 CONTENTS 429 Best Explanationism and Justication for Beliefs about the Future Gregory Stoutenburg 439 Epistemic Solidarity as a Political Strategy Robert E. Goodin and Kai Spiekermann 459 Epistemology and Radically Extended Cognition Benjamin Jarvis 479 The Heterogeneity Problem for Sensitivity Accounts Guido Melchior 497 Cognitive Diversity, Binary Decisions, and Epistemic Democracy John A. Weymark Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.33.19, on 23 Sep 2021 at 11:08:03, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2015.51.